An Epidemic of Absence

Have you ever wondered if things being too clean might be making you sick? Have you ever wondered if all of the antiseptic, anti-microbial hand creams and the like might be one of the reasons why we're seeing more allergies and autoimmune diseases? Then his is the book for you. In this great treatise, the concept of needing healthy bacteria, needing healthy worms and parasites is reviewed. It's amazing some of the cutting-edge research we're now looking at using helminthic therapy for autoimmune diseases was actually seen by researchers and in countries going back to World War Two. This book reviews the literature evidence as well as tell stories of how maybe just maybe our infatuation with antiseptics antimicrobials antibiotics, and anti-parasitics might be one of the factors driving chronic illness in the West.

“An Epidemic of Absence considers the critical immune stimuli we inadvertently lost as we modernized, and the modern ills we may be able to correct by restoring them. At stake is nothing less than our health and that of our loved ones. Researchers, meanwhile, have the good fortune of living through a paradigm shift, one of those occasional moments in the progress of science when a radically new way of thinking emerges, shakes things up, and suggests new avenues of treatment. You'll discover that you're not you at all, but a bustling collection of organisms, an ecosystem whose preservation and integrity requires the utmost attention and care.” Publishers note.